DigiTimes is reporting plans from both Samsung and SK Hynix to slow down their fabrication capacity expansion plans for NAND and DRAM in wake of lower than expected demand projection for the first half of 2019. This move comes at a time where DRM pricing is still extremely prohibitive due to "higher demand than fabrication capacity output" - and we'd already seen the companies base their fabrication expansions on lower than expected demand increases, as a way to artificially keep pricing for the memory commodity high. NAND is another case - price per GB has been dropping like a rock. And now, the companies want to thwart expected lower demand with lower production values.

Samsung, for one, has reportedly put its plans for additional new production capacity for 1ynm DRAM chips at its fabs in Hwaseong and Pyeongtaek on hold. The chip vendor previously planned to build an additional 30,000 wafers monthly for DRAM memory starting the third quarter of 2018, the sources said - but is now looking to reduce that number to keep pricing from bottoming out. Sk Hynix is also reported to have slowed down its projected production, but details are scarcer on that side of the fence. All in all, it seems that whether there is demand or not, seeing DRAM prices falling to their previous levels is a dream in both name and, not paradoxically, reality.

RockarolaAsia as in Boise, Idaho? (Micron)
China...you definitely have a point
Taiwan and South Korea...somewhat of a point
India, Singapore and the other 52 nations in the geographical Asia? Really?

You forgot Japan, where Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, etc, are selling their products for DOUBLE the price compared with North/South Americas. Or where the phone companies like Softbank and Docomo have the most callous and overly expensive monthly contracts from Asia, and definitely Top 3 in the world, while their customer support services are THE WORST in the whole Japan.

Prima.VeraYou forgot Japan, where Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, etc, are selling their products for DOUBLE the price compared with North/South Americas. Or where the phone companies like Softbank and Docomo have the most callous and overly expensive monthly contracts from Asia, and definitely Top 3 in the world, while their customer support services are THE WORST in the whole Japan.

That's not dishonesty, that's just sound business (I'm not defending it, just saying that any company will charge what the market will bear...look at Apple)